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Comment Re:"Obstruction of Business" (Score 1) 132

The US already has laws for that.

The US also has laws against fraud and racketeering. Doesn't seem to apply to companies over a certain size.

Citation please?

Proof that it doesn't happen? How would that work?

How about you show me cases where marketing boses or CEOs of a large company is indicted for fraud when they do fraudulent marketing?

Comment Re:Taken to the cleaners... (Score 5, Funny) 132

Agreed. Touching a competitor's setup at a trade fair is bush league.

I don't buy that "testing" defense for a second. If you're a company that large you test by buying a machine anonymously at retail, take it to your labs, complete a test plan, then take it apart the see the build and components. Just randomly poking at stuff before a trade show isn't even going to give you much data.

Doing this always breaks our machines. I wonder if our competitor has found a way to avoid it breaking?.... Oh, it appears not. How interesting.

Comment Re:A good language that'll get slammed... (Score 1) 520

Forcing code indentation is a sign you're going to be working with a bunch of "coders" who took a weekend course and not actual software engineers.

IMO, only lazy, inept, or noob programmers don't indent correctly. So if a language requires them to indent properly, they call it forced indentation because they usually don't indent correctly in other languages.

If I'm wrong, how many different ways can you indent the following code?

for x in range(1,10):

      for y in range(1,10):

            if someCondition:

                    result[x][y] = a[x][y] + b[x][y]

Read parent again.

The issue is this:

database.execute(
    "SELECT col"
    "FROM table"
    "WHERE y"
);

Correct SQL indentation, allowed and easy in a sane language, impossible to do in a stupid language with forced indentation rules that only applies the language itself.

Comment Re:Big Data (Score 1) 439

The idea that Battleships are obsolete is also rather dumb to be honest. It's too financially efficient though for the Gov't to keep ships we already built in service rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new concept ships that suck.

The problem is they are vulnerable to air-attacks so they need a screen like a carrier, but is less useful than a carrier. So why not have a carrier, or just smaller ships with cannons that are cheaper and cost less to lose?

Comment Re:So... nuclear power is still supported? (Score 1) 309

How has their position changed? Nuclear was their primary focus as an energy source in 1990, and is still a part of the strategy to move away from fossil fuels, the only shift is that other renewable energy source have grown more viable.

Apparently it hasn't, but there was a single report being more sceptic about nuclear power, but it was only a single one, and not they are back to supporting it fully.

And then of couse their optimism in whether anyone are paying attention to their recommendations has changed, and is rather tragic if a bit funny reading.

Comment Re:For profit proganda. (Score 1) 645

Yes there is. Fox news is officially on record for saying they are an entertainment channel. That is their excuse for broadcasting lies as news, it is the only reason they are allowed to broadcast lies as news, because their news show is just "entertainment". No other news network has had to make such a defense, or needed to because no other news network deliberately broadcast lies as news.

Comment Re:For profit proganda. (Score 3, Insightful) 645

> A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation.

So no, they didn't post a snuff film.

You think there were special effects use? or that Fox is not in the entertainment industry or in any industry to make money at all?

Comment Re:Not eliminating all "gunpowder" (Score 1) 517

and big naval guns are not used as mortars, so the fact that a rail gun is not a mortar replacement is not news. what's your point?

They are not? What do you think they are used for then?

Sorry big naval guns are often used beyond the horizon and for shelling the land. This is all what you call "like a mortar".

The direct fire guns are for aircraft defense and replaced by lasers not railguns.

Comment Re:Does Lint Exist anymore (Score 1) 233

Compiler warnings have mostly caught up with the capabilities of Lint. There are some things Lint still does, but there are lots of things it warns about that have, as far as I know, never been the cause of a real bug. Getting a project to be 100% warning free with gcc -Wall is possible, and usually possible with -Wextra (maybe not so much with g++). The warnings usually are valuable, and I've personally seen bugs that could have been caught with gcc's warnings. Other compilers have other warnings and personalities, but I think it's worthwhile to investigate using warnings to check out a project with any compiler.

To make it easy and fast use -Wall -Werror. That way you don't have to skim the log, but can just run make and come back when it breaks, and keep going until it compiles. Remember to remove -Werror later though otherwise compiler updates can bite you.

Comment Re:It's all about the incentive (Score 2) 227

Negotiations are negotiations, if the US press one issue above all else, those other issues that might have benefited the US might not get through, plus the other side gets to get some of their stuff through.

No, this is not rational, this is just narrowminded thinking by people who haven't realized even fucking mobile games is a bigger industry than Hollywood now.

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